Edouard descomps



(No'ModeL) E. DESUOMPS.

OAR REPLAGER.

No. 448,137. Patented Mar. 10, 1891.

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NITE TATES ArnNr EDOUARD DESCOMPS, OF UTIOA, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO LOUIS LOMBARD, OF SAME PLACE.

CAR-REPLACER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 448,137, dated March 10, 1891.

Application filed December 3, 1890- Serial No. 373,397. (No model.)

To all whom. it may concern.-

Be it known that I, EDOUARD DESCOMPS, a

citizen of the Republic of France, and a resi-' dent of Utica, in the county of Oneida, in the State of New York, have invented new and useful Improvements in Derailed -Oar Replacer, of which the following, taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, is a full, clear, and exact description.

to The purpose of this invention is to provide simple, convenient, and efficient means for expeditiously replacing on the track-rails a car which has been thrown from said rail;

and to that end the invention consists, essen- [5 tially, of a shoe formed at its bottom with a seat, by which it is adapted to rest on the track-rail, and is also formed at its top witha seat for the reception of the end of the carreplacing rail, all as hereinafter more fully described, and specifically set forth in the claims.

In the annexed drawings, Figure 1 is a plan view of a section of track-rail, with my improved car-replacer applied to said rail. Fig.

2 5 2 is an enlarged side view of the same, with the track-rai1 shown in dotted lines. Fig. 3 is an end viewof the car-replacing shoe mounted on the track-rail. Fig. a is a detached perspective view of the component parts of the 0 car-replacer. Fig. 5 is an inverted plan view of the shoe, and Fig. 6 is a transverse section of a modification of my car-replacer.

Similar letters of reference 1ndicate corresponding parts.

3 5 R represents the stationary track-rail.

A denotes the shoe hereinbefore referred to, which shoe is formed with a suitable hearing a, preferably convexed longitudinally and adapted to rest upon the track-rail R, as shown. To retain the said shoe on the trackrail I form the under side of the shoe with a downwardly-projecting shoulder a, which abuts with its side against the usual vertical oiifset o of the rail, and thus prevents the shoe 5 from slipping from one side of the rail R. The slipping of the shoe from the opposite side of the rail is prevented by a chain f, attached at one end to the side of the shoe and secured atthe opposite end to an anchoring pin or spike passing through a ring 1 on the chain and driven into the ground at a point in a line at right angles to the side of the shoe, as illustrated in Fig. 1 of the drawings. Another chain f is attached to the shoe, and in securing the shoe to the rail R this latter chain is extended rearward from the shoe, and a pin or spike isinserted in a ring on the end of said chain and driven into the ground. This latter arrangement anchors the shoe so as to prevent it from slipping longitudinally on the track-rail. To allow the said shoe to be placed diagonally on the rail R,I form the shoulder a diagonally across the bottom of the shoe, as shown more clearly in Fig. 5 of the drawings. The rear portion of the top of 6 5 the shoe I form with a bearing for the end of the car-replacing rail 0, which bearing I prefer to form of mortises pp and an intermedlate tongue i, and an upward-projectingtransverse shoulder e in front of said mortises.

The end of the rail r is formed with downward-projecting lugs Z Z and intermediate notch n, and is placed with said lugs in the inortises p p of the shoe, and is thus prevented from slipping either laterally or longitudinally on the shoe. The notch n, being over the tonguet, is filled by akey (Z, inserted in the notch and resting on the tongue.

Both ends of the rail 0" may be formed with the lugs Z Z and intervening notch 12, so that 8: either end of said rail may be connected to the shoe A. Furthermore, in some cases the shoulder a on the bottom of the shoe may be dispensed with, as represented in Fig. 6 of the drawings.

In replacinga derailed car the shoe is placed in its requisite position upon the track-rail and securely anchored, as hereinbefore described, and then the free end of the rail is placed in front of the derailed car-wheel. 9 The car being then moved toward the rail 9",

it is caused to mount said rail, andis thereby guided onto the shoe A, from which it passes onto the track-rail.

Having described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. In a car-replacer, the replacing-rail r, in combination with the shoe A, formed with a bearing for the end of said rail and having 10 its bottom formed with the do\\-'nwardly-projecting shoulder a, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

2. In acar-replacer, the combination of the shoe A, formed with the IHOltlSGS p 1) in its top, and the rail 7, provided at its end with the lugs, entering said mortises, as set forth.

3. In combination with the shoe A, formed with the mortisesp and in termediate tongue '6, the rail '7', formed with the lugs Z Z and. in-

. terinediate notch n, and the key (I, entering said notch, as set forth and shown.

4. A car-replacer consisting of the shoe A, formed at its under side with the shoulder a, extending diagonally across it, and provided 'at its top with the inortises p p and intermediate tongue 2, and upward'projeeting shoulder 6, the rail 1', formed with the lugs Z Z and intermediate notch n, and the key d, entering said notch, substantially as described and shown.

EDOUARD DESCOMPS. [L. s.]

\Yitnesses:

LOUIS LOMBARD, J. M. PUFFER. 

